Hi all and thank you for all your wonderfull help on my query as to this same Batten family. This lady i have been searching for after 1887 under her name being assulated here in dunedin i cant find anything. nor anywhere else in NZ have had help with this lady in NZ. now i did find school records here from 1882 till 1884 with a stepfather John Saywell so i wondered if she changed her name but couldnt find her anywhere and still at this court case in 1887 she still was Mary Batten. She was born in 1875 to Jane nee Watret who died 1876 here in dunedin and William Batten as al;l family knew was a mariner he remarried again in 1887 to a Margaret morris had one son but dissapeared presumed drowned at sea. the son from this second marriage always thought his dad was Walter Morgan. who his mum had taken up with. the son William Watret Batten her brother whom you have helped me his family he moved to Invercargill n then Wellington NZ then shifted his family to NSW. i just wondered if Mary jane batten moved to Aussie i did see a marriage to a walter Goldsworthy in 1892 in Nsw but i dont know if that would be her or not. i think this will be my last attempt at trying to find this lady. thanks for all your help. Sue